Ive been living in a state of mild apprehension the last year or two.
I tried to analyse it and had difficulty...then it struck me.
Its to do with the governments. They arent doing their jobs.
I read newspapers, and I go on the net and I talk to people and the "come back" is that nothing seems to be fuctioning properly. Billions are being spend and we are still going backwards.
I looked at the 2020 Summit and felt really uncomfortable.
Alexander Downer says something like "it was only a left-wing gabfest". Was it too elitist?
It felt insincere. It looked it.
Words...talk...talk talk...but no real heart for the poor in our cities and or those in the bush. Theres great need out there too. The farmers feed us but we knock them and miserably fail to support them.
Some of the things that have eroded my faith in governments...
1. the constant fighting in parliaments,
2. the constant spin when politicians are confronted with their failures,
3. the slow failing of rail systems, buses, ferries (in Sydney),
4. never enough police,
5. lack of censorship on pornography (sex crime all over the place and no one confronts the truth but the Christians),
The country seems to have no vision and the people mill here and there aimlessly. In the uncertainty... the people get drunk.
Is there an answer to the directionless and the apathy? Can we knuckle down and finalise the problems?
Kicking out the Monachy will only make it worse...the people more drifting.
Its got me perplexed other than to encourage prayer against the chaos.

OK you got me! I truly thought you to be just a fundamentalist nut but you are quite funny in fact.
You have pulled our legs and mine too no one could be so out of touch with reality and the real world.
or could they?

...then theres the hospitals Belly and the Darling/Murray River systems and dont get me started on Defence.
China builds flat out for a perceived conflict with the USA and this nation is mostly uprepared for any sudden change in the world military climate.
No citizens home guard defence force! No redirecting lazy, apathetic youth into national service.
The nation appears to me to be weighed down with ineptitude.

"Ive been living in a state of mild apprehension the last year or two. I tried to analyse it and had difficulty...then it struck me.
Its to do with the governments. They arent doing their jobs."

Gibo thats a possible explaination but it seems more likely to me that the problem comes in trying to live with a lot of beliefs which are in conflict with reality. So much of the stuff you've written about in your time on OLO is clearly false (and often easily proven to be false) that it must create a lot of turmoil trying to cling to those beliefs.

Thats a simpler and more credible explaination for the anxiety you feel. Your best option is to seek professional help.

Our governments generally don't do as well as we would like but trying to blame that for your anxiety is drawing a long bow.

R0bert

R0bert's right gibo, not that I expect you to take notice of actual evidence. Of course the world seems like a bad place, when you've decided that your prophecies tell you it is, then you discard any evidence to the contrary.

I do wonder why you bother on OLO, given that you're not actually willing to listen to evidence from other people, by your own admission. Seems to me you're not interested in discussion at all, rather, a soapbox upon which you can yell that we're caught in a storm, despite the fact that everyone else can see the sun shining.

Reality RObert is drastically changed when one confesses the sin and genuinely invites Jesus Christ into ones life. At this moment The Holy Spirit enters a persons body and things... are suddenly NEW. The Bible comes as TRUTH. Not just a history book. Now that you are born again in Christ...the power of Gods Word is your reality.
I noticed looking back down the years that Labor has been in power a lot during the decline. I would attribute this to few, if any, born again christians in Labor serving that particular politcial party. Just men and women without the Power of Gods Word in their lives.